Orthodoxographa theologiae sacrosanctae ac syncerioris fidei doctores numero LXXVI : ecclesiae columina luminaq[ue] clarissima authores partim Graeci, partim Latini, ob uetustatem & eruditione[m] uenerandi, quoru[m] quidam nulli hactenus uisi: uerbis breues, divini uerò Spiritus doctrina multoru[m] scriptorum quantu[m]uis prolixa uolumina supera[n]tes, ut uerè possint appellari Theologica Bibliotheca, abundè satis sufficiens theologo in omnem usum futura, sive Biblia utriusq[ue] instrumenti libros interpretari, sive haereses co[n]uellere, discordiae, religionis pesti, mederi, concordiam in Domino, ecclesiae salutem, alere & ueram religione[m] (cuius finis charitas est) docereuelit : vtinam haec legant, cognosca[n]t & sequantur, quicunq[ue] in his periculosissimis temporibus ecclesiastico funguntur ministerio.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Herold, Johannes, approximately 1550-1603.

Petri, Heinrich, 1508-1579, printer.

Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Theology--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Theology.

Theology--Early works to 1800.

History.

Penn Provenance:

Gymnasium Ernestinum Gotha (former owner) (stamp)

Physical Description:

40 unnumbered pages,1522 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 33 cm (folio)

Fingerprint:

o-r- C.ad nto- auna (3) 1555 (R)

Place of Publication:

Basileae : Per Henrichum Petri, mense martio, anno M.D.LV [1555]

Language Note:

Main body of work in Latin, with some parallel texts in Greek and Latin.

Notes:

Edited by Joannes Heroldt.

Imprint and date from colophon.

Woodcut printer's device on title-page and on verso of final leaf. Woodcut historiated initials.

Printed marginalia.

Signatures: a⁶ b⁸ c⁶ A-Z⁸ 2a-2z⁸ 2A-2Z⁸, ²2A⁸ 2B-2C⁶ 2D-2Z⁸ 3A-3B⁸ 3C⁶ 3D⁸.

Includes index at front.

Local Notes:

Lea Library copy bound in full stamped leather over bevelled-edge wooden boards; remains of two metal clasps; early ms. leaf used as binder's waste.

Lea Library copy has the withdrawal stamp of the Gymnasium Ernestinum Gotha Library ("Bibl. Gymn. Goth.") on t.p.

Lea Library copy has numerous wormholes, some affecting text, primarily in early gatherings and front pastedown.

Cited in:

Adams, O350

OCLC:

80419772